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A friend here on the cafe recently challenged me to write one, thinking it would be too hard. I think there just may be another literary nerd on here who is capable of this type of wacky word-smithery. In fact, I think there might be three or four, or maybe... more? Someone's going to be up to the challenge, I think. I know I'm not the only word nerd here on a site for writers.

So you know what alliteration is (or if you don't, it's the repetition of a consonant sound in a line or in an entire poem, such as "rubber baby buggy bumpers full of bananas busily bouncing about in a Balkan bay".... (had to expand that old standard to be at least slightly original).
You know what an Acrostic is, of course... (you know, when you spell a word with the first or last letters of the words in the lines of the poem...) but do you know what a Trigee is?

I actually didn't, and couldn't find many sources of information, other than a couple of samples. Here is one sample- see if you can look at it and figure out the form, but then I'll explain it anyway for those of you who don't like puzzles as much as I do.

Do you notice what the form entails? The poem can be read both left to right and line by line as a normal poem would be read, but there is a purpose for the separation at the middles of the lines. If you read straight down, each of the separated parts forms a tangible poem as well. Notice also that there is an economy of words. No trigee will ever be long. I followed Euwaite's examples and made mine of four lines, or eight when separated.

Now that you know what a Trigee is, and you already knew what alliteration and acrostics are... you can put them all together, like I did in this poem, I called I Ran Iran, thanks to the Acrostic words I spelled, in order to alliterate more easily, down both parts of my Trigee:

I Ran Iran (alliterative Acrostic Trigee):

I am truly inspired to............ Instigate another uprising

Reveal to you my radical........Really revolutionary idea:

Anxious new plan for you.......America has awakened and

Now that we've grown...........None dare stand in the way

See? It can be done. But I know it can be done better than I did it. So I want to see you try. :) Be good sports, if you feel like trying a new form that no one other than me has possibly ever tried before. (The Original Trigee form itself seems to be rather rare, at least online). You can do it!

*Huge kudos to Todd Bailey here at Writer's Cafe, who actually invented the form by challenging me half-heartedly to create one in a review on one of my other experimental works.